University Develops Swarming Drones (With Video)

University Develops Swarming Drones (With Video)

February 10, 2012
By Glenn Pew, Contributing Editor, Video Editor

(http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/university_figure_eight_swarm_drone_206169-1.html)
A research team at the University of Pennsylvania has successfully demonstrated close formation work among large networked groups of autonomous vehicles, and the results are visually captivating. The SWARMS project (http://www.swarms.org/) (Scalable sWarms of Autonomous Robots and Mobile Sensors) involves a team from the university's general robotics, automation, sensing and perception lab. Work there on autonomous multicopters has led to demonstrations of the vehicles performing obstacle navigation and precise maneuvering while flying in large formations and operating as a group of networked autonomous vehicles. In plain English, you'll want to watch all 16 of them autonomously fly a cross-over figure eight pattern at 1:22 in the video.

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